Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

against the captain of the bark Ada Mel
| more, which collided with the British
emigrant ship Kapunda, of the Brazilian
coast, January 20, when the latter was
sunk and over three hundred persons
drowned. The captain of the Ada Mel
more is charged with infringing on the
regulations to prevent collisions
INVESTIGATION into the affairs of A. NJ
Stanton, of Detroit, Mich, who ran away
with the funds. of George K. Sistare Il
Son, of New York, shows shortage of
$2S,GOO
The fine Roman amphitheater, in Aus
tria, on the Adriatic, suddenly collapsed
on the I'd, and fell into an immense chasm
which opened on the site, and from this
chasm volcanic vapors are now emitted.
LARGE tenement building in Pitts
burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
ID, and ten families lost all their worldly
possessions, some of them narrowly es-
Gaping with their lives.
DR.. CHARLES BRUIL, of Avoca, Wis, has
been arrested and lodged in Jail on a
| charge of having poisoned his wife.
THE murdered girl at Railway, N j.,
has again been identified, this time as
Wllhelmina Johnson, of Brooklyn.
THREE Russians, who attempted to as
hanged at st. Petersburg
BY railroad collision on the Canada
Southern section Of the Michigan Central
| railroad, near st. Thomas, Ont, on the
I'd, two brakemen were killed and large
amount Of rolling stock wrecked.
A SUCCESSFUL trial of the Terry cable
system for street railways was made upon
an experimental track in ST. Louis on the
I'd, and it seems to be the coming motor
for that city.
THE Irish constable Dorney, who re-
fused to take part in the arrest of Father
Ryan, has been dismissed from the force.
The government will not prosecute him.
WORK on the guns for the new war-ships
is being pushed at the Washington Ord
nance foundry.
MRS. NELLIE SMITH, of 10 Harper's 8
| court, Brooklyn, visited Railway, N. j., on
| the 81, and said that she identified the
| body of the murde red girl as that Of her
| former servant, named Sophia Smith.
THE Pope has sent confidential COM
| munication to Prussian bishops, inviting
suggestions as to the feasibility of es-
| tablishing muncature at Berlin for Prus-
sia. or one munciature for the whole Of
Germany.
QUEEN VICTORIA held a reception at the
| Villa Edelweiss, Cannes, on the 3D., grant
ing audience to the most prominent En-
glish sojourners and permanent residents
there, together with the officials of the
town.
| AT meeting of Cincinnati Topographic
| cal Union No. 3, on the 3D. the price of
composition was raised from forty cents
to forty-tive cents per 1,0oO ems on morn
| ing papers, and a proportionate advance
! nd nl,
ABOUT thirteen thousand applications
| for Mexican pensions have been filed, but
| they have hardly begun yet to come out of
the mill, although one hundred volunteer
clerks are working on them overtime.
Seven were granted last week, but they
had been made special under the general
provisions of the Pension Office. In a
short time, however, it. is expected the
preliminary work will be over, and then
they will be granted at the rate of a thou
sand or more a week.
Two more bodies have been discovered
In the ruins of the Richmond Hotel at
Buffalo, N. Y.-those of a man and a
woman. They were found near the CEN
ter of the building Their identity SO far
remains mystery.
A MAN named O'Rourke has been ar
rested at Niagara Falls on suspicion of
being the person who recently robbed the
express messenger on the West shore
railroad
CHICAGO and Cincinnati carpenters are
out on strike.
AS the result of flood at Ingersoll,
Ont, on the. 4th, six persons are reported
drowned.
A VICIOUS convict named Cunningham
attempted to assault Judge Moore in the
Brooklyn Court of Sessions on the 4th.
News from Afghanistan indicates that
bloody civil, and perhaps international,
war is not far distant.
JUDGE WILLIAM S. PIERCE, leading
spirit of anti ti-slavery days and for over
twenty years past on the bench, died on
the 4th at Philadelphia.
THE American students at a Catholic
college in Rome on the 4th paid tributes of
regard to Cardinal Gibbons.
john L. SULLIVAN was introduced to the
President on the 4th, and the latter ire
spectfully declined'' course Of exercise
with the Bostonian for teacher.
THE new government scheme for Al
sace- Lorraine has been completed.
Among the 'sreforms'' is an addition of
5000 troops to the Strasburg garrison.
A COMMITTEE has been appointed from
the Virginia Legislature to meet COM
mission of foreign bondholders and make
an effort to settle the State debt.
THREE Cuban fends, guilty OF horrible
murders and barbarities, were legally
executed recently at Santiago de Cuba by
shooting. A rare scene Of defiant bravado
was witnessed.
GENERAL john MCNULTA, OF Bloom ing
ton, ILL.,, has been appointed receiver OF
the Wabash railway lines east of the Mis-
sissippi river, to succeed Judge Cooley.
TROUBLE has arisen between England
and Venezuela, and England is concen-
trating naval and military forces in the
port of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
II. S. CANFIELD, the reporter who was
imprisoned at Austin, Tex, by order OF
the Legislature, has sued the mem bers OF
that body for damages aggregating sl1O,-
025
A CONFERENCE composed OF delegations
representing the British colonial posses
sions opened in London on the 4th. Lord
Salisbury, British prime minister. gave
his views on imperial federation.
GENERAL w. p. EDGARToS, formerly
chief postal insp pector at st. Louis and af-
forwards transferred to Boston, from
which ,,oiut he was recently moved to the